Hello Bastien,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Bastien <<a href="mailto:bzg@altern.org">bzg@altern.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi SJ and all,<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here in France, Free Software organizations like APRIL or AFUL already<br>
have good contacts with educational-IT NGOs that might locally help with<br>
the deployment of XOs -- both and the technical and pedagocial side.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yes; OLPC France can certainly help with this.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">OLPC France just applied to become a repair center.<br>
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We also applied to get XOs through the Developers Program.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Your developers program applications were approved; they should ship out early next week.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And I really hope we will be able to be a repair center, because we have<br>
many IT students waiting to be part of it; and I really hope we will be<br>
able to get new XOs, as it will help us bring up new content in french,<br>
both because of possible implementation in France and in the countries.<br>
This will also help us convince NGOs working in the countries that we<br>
can work together on this.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yes, I do too. Having an active repair center in each country with devoted developers is important.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Having a community website is all good, but delegating part of the<br>
"social implementation" to people who already deal with it might be<br>
useful as well.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>bien sūr...<br> <br></div>SJ<br></div>